Ruth Miriam Campbell

RUTH MIRIAM ELIZABETH

OLSON CAMPBELL

Cedar Rapids

Ruth Miriam Elizabeth Olson Campbell, 94, born in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 20, 1921, passed peacefully at The Meth-Wick Community on Nov. 22, 2015. She was the only daughter of Swedish immigrants Anna and Gordon Olson.

Miriam married Alan Campbell at Hyde Park Methodist Church on Dec. 27, 1941. She followed her late beloved husband, Alan, and her family through various communities in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, each time giving all her support to her husband and children. Mom often supported the financial needs of the family through employment as a medical or business secretary. She retired from Crane Co. in Cedar Rapids after 20 years of service. However, she was always engaged as a full-time mother.

As God's humble servant, her life was centered around giving herself to others. She sacrificed her own comfort and wants to help satisfy the wants and needs of others. Often, financial distress caused untold hardship. On occasion there was not enough food to feed the entire family and her mother, Anna Olson, helped, not only by living with the family, but supporting it by assisting with the children. Mom lived through the Depression learning to "make do." Now through three generations, Mom's Christian love continues to live on.

Shortly after her marriage, her husband, Alan, became a Quaker Church, supported World War II Conscience Objector (CO). As a CO, Alan took various government positions around the country. Miriam accompanied him.

Miriam was preceded in death by her parents, Anna and Gordon Olson; brothers, Wendell and Paul; and her husband, Alan.

She is survived by her five children, Alan Jr. (Colleen), their daughter, Dawn (Nick), and their children, Orion and Kepler, as well as their son, Benjamin (Amy); Ken (Stella); Jeanne, and her daughters, Rachel and Lindsey (Dan); Gary (Mira) and their daughter, Megan; and Ron, (fiancee, April Hedgecoth) and Ron's daughter, Allison, and her children, Izak and Navi, as well as Laura, Ron's younger daughter.

Miriam is now with the Lord. Her spirit remains alive in all of those who were part of her life.

Services for Miriam Campbell will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, at St Paul's United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids. She will be interred next to her husband, Alan, in the columbarium at the church.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St Paul's United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids.

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